Audit popular OS libraries

[matthewp]

Should do an audit of popular open source libraries and make sure they work. I've tested a few that did not, such as Mocha.

[matthewp]

This audit is based on the top Bower packages sorted by stars. They are installed from npm, of course. I couldn't find a listing of the top NPM browser modules. Will do another audit if a better list can be found.

• Bootstrap no Support "jspm" package.json property #34
• Angular yes
• D3 yes
• Font-Awesome yes
• Backbone no (UMD depends on jquery, package.json doesn't. works if you also install jquery)
• animate.css yes
• Moment yes
• Three.js yes
• Normalize.css yes
• Semantic-UI (doesn't look like a front-end lib)
• Underscore yes
• Chart.js yes
• Select2 no (possibly Support "jspm" package.json property #34)
• Skrollr yes
• Async yes
• Less yes
• Ratchet yes
• purecss no (Handle mains that need a plugin #35)
• Hammer.js yes
• Sweet Alert yes
• Slick.js no (Add jquery as a dependency kenwheeler/slick#1152)
• Typeahead.js no (List jquery as a dependency in package.json twitter/typeahead.js#1143)
• jquery-mobile no (package.json main pointing to the wrong file jquery-archive/jquery-mobile#8011)

[matthewp]

These are just some other popular libraries I thought of:

• React yes
• Ember no (Publish to NPM emberjs/ember.js#9354)
• Lodash yes
• Ramda yes
• Mocha no (browser field example: mocha #26)
• Knockout yes
• Modernizr no (main points to node code)
• Polymer (doesn't appear to publish to npm)

[wclr]

Minilog. not so popular but. https://github.com/mixu/minilog tries to load node version in browser
so it needs to be mapped to "minilog/lib/web/index.js",

[matthewp]

@whitecolor Thanks! It should work if their package.json has:

{
  "browser": "./lib/web/console.js"
}

This would also make it work with browserify. Should file an issue for them to add that.

[wclr]

Ok
mixu/minilog#24

[matthewp]

Great, hope they merge.

[mixu]

Boom, merged! Thanks.

[matthewp]

Looks like it's working, thanks @mixu !

[wclr]

Try to load less in browser `(https://github.com/less/less.js/blob/master/package.json)

it tries to load package dependecies why?

[matthewp]

Not sure I understand your question. The reason it doesn't work is because its main points to the Node code. #40 would fix it. PRs welcome.

[wclr]

I tried with forked version with "browser": "./dist/less.js" field and steal tries load less.js package.json deps.

[matthewp]

@whitecolor Created #41 to track that issue.

[matthewp]

Ah @whitecolor :) less/less.js@7cc986e

Thank you!